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Originally Posted by eschwartz
No, the purpose was to promote the creation of new works. Giving ownership to the creators (and thus allowing them to be paid) was the means.
Copyright law does not give a darn who owns it, just so long as it gets made. It is certainly not the objective to promulgate the public domain.
The limited time is in order to balance the desires of all parties (consumers and producers) and thus the fact that a public domain exists at all is merely a nice side effect of the implementation.
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You are totally wrong here.